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Talk:Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies (view source)
Revision as of 12:07, June 5, 2015
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It has positive messages of patriotism, respect for history and the founding fathers, standing up for what you believe in rather than going alone with the crowd, and many others.
It has positive messages of patriotism, respect for history and the founding fathers, standing up for what you believe in rather than going alone with the crowd, and many others.
== Star Wars conservative? ==
Hi.
Can we really list the entire Star Wars films as being solidly conservative? I'll give you the first film and Empire Strikes Back (original releases, at least: The first film's rerelease may be debatable now thanks to George Lucas deciding to rework a certain scene to effectively promote gun control), but Return of the Jedi is debatable as while it ''does'' promote good over evil, and actually features redemption in the form of Vader giving up his life to save Luke from the Emperor, it also was mentioned by George Lucas to promote the Vietcong's exploits against American soldiers during the Vietnam War via the Ewoks. Similarly, the Prequel Trilogy seems to hint at a morally relativistic view, and ironically the bad guys are stated to believe in moral absolutes at one point (Obi-Wan, shortly before dueling with Anakin Skywalker-turned-Darth Vader, mentioned "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" after Vader said that Obi-Wan's his enemy if he's not with him), and there have been quite a few unsubtle jabs at the Bush administration in the Prequel Trilogy (and in the case of Return of the Jedi, the Nixon administration, even though Nixon was the one who ended the Vietnam War, while Johnson was the one who pretty much expanded the conflict and Kennedy was effectively the one who started it). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 08:07, 5 June 2015 (EDT)